hmm, the switch designed as a tiny container with two metallic pins in the bottom should work fine.
Don't forget that the PIC can do some filtering on the signals and I think that should suffice just
fine.

/Marcus

Simon Nield wrote:

> One caveat on trying to use two mercury switches for this; not all mercury switches are 'tilt'
> switches, a lot of them detect 'vibration'. In other words they are designed to detect movement in
> any direction, so make sure you are not using this sort.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
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